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title: Aboo!” and at the same time he switched the naked baby with a thorny… — Old Indian Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Aboo!” and at the same time he switched the naked baby with a thorny wild-rose bush. Who acts: giant. A sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, Manstin, the Rabbit, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Old Indian Legends, Manstin, the Rabbit, sentence 13

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Aboo!” and at the same time he switched the naked baby with a thorny wild-rose bush.

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**Who acts:** giant · **What happens:** switch · **To what, where:** naked baby

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This is a sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, Manstin, the Rabbit. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (giant), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg338:14:13
# text = Aboo!” and at the same time he switched the naked baby with a thorny wild-rose bush.
1	Aboo	Aboo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	switched	switch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	naked	naked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
16	thorny	thorny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
17	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	rose	rose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	bush	bush	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **switch** *in a quote* | past | giant | the naked baby |  |  |  | with a thorny rose bush | vn substitute-13.6.2 «NP V NP PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme baby=Location with bush=Co-Theme |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, Project Gutenberg book 338 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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